1938

Suite 1160, 208 S. La Salle St., Chicago 4, Ill.

As this is being written, snow is once again falling on hills which have been barren and ice-covered tor some days past, and New Hampshire looks as it should in the winter. As long as '86 is remembered as the year of the big snow, '47 should be remembered as the year of the big rain.

THE DISTAFF SIDE: My mail has been free and clear of all perfumed letters during the past month, and although rumor hath it that hell knows no fury like a woman's wrath, I still have had no further word from Mrs. H.Ross Borneman of Elkhart relative to the report which my middle western agent brought in last month of her dire threats.

Bob Frese and his wife entered the ranks of parenthood (I don't know if X should say again or not) on January 16, when Virginia Helen was born. If I were a Winchell or a von Pechmann, I might do a little prognosticating in the bottle and diaper field, but since I'm not, I'll leave all that for a later edition.

Dick Niebling reports that he is back at Yale Graduate School working on his thesis for a Ph.D.; he is on a year's leave of absence from Exeter, where he went to teach in 1941. He says further, "I will be back in Exeter in June, teaching there in the summer session and, I hope, forevermore. Libby and I now have two children—daughters I am working as a part-time interviewer of applicants for admission in the Yale Studies office."

The Thirty-Eighters of Boston held their monthly get-together at Rosoff's the middle of January, with 18 hungry faces present, including some who have only recently come out of hiding, according to Art Soule: Fud Mather, now with New England Tel and Tel in Cam- bridge; Brad Jenkins, who is in his family's trucking business in Mattapan; Andy Perkins, allegedly with a weather eye out for candidates for his glue factory in Winchester; and Bob Egelhoj}, presently working on the John Hancock building in Boston. Stearns MacNutt has become a partner in the firm of Gore-Temple, cotton importers, in Boston.

This is slightly out of date, but Jim Tompkins was married on October 27 in Ann Arbor, Mich., to Patricia Anne Spore, formerly of Ponca City, Oklahoma: she is an alumna of the University of Michigan.

WHO'S WHERE: Bob Ross has been named instructor in English and the Humanities at Wesleyan, effective February 1. Since I last saw him, back in the dark days of law school, Bob has put in considerable time at Harvard Graduate School and in the Army Dr.Bob Cataldo is practicing in Boston and Waltham and is teaching part-time at Tufts Medical School Lou Frick is living in East Orange and working for Twentieth CenturyFox in New York Gunner Tuck has removed to southern California Bru Potter is back in Washington, D. C Stan Brown, whose whereabouts seem to be known only to himself, was married recently to Nena Castro, daughter of the Minister from El Salvador. One thing about the anonymity of gangbusting: it makes it hard for the bill collectors.

George Zeluff is living in East Rockaway, Long Island Duke Wales is working on the magazine staff of the Sunday New York Times, living in Douglaston with wife and sons Sam, six months, and Pete, three years. ....Juan Jova is back in the States, having spent the past year in Paris, with the Navy. .... Punchy Reynolds is teaching at Pittsburgh State Teachers college;, his daughter, Nancy, was born on October 11 CharleyHitchcock, another of our engineers (not locomotive engineers, Hosmer) is working for Metcalfe and Eddy in Boston Bob Linscott was last seen in Alabama Bill Fasolo is practicing law in Hackensack, N. J Dwight Parkinson is at the Mayo Clinic Don Clark was at Maxwell Field late in December, attached to the Air University Library Here Brandts is living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and teaching in the United Airlines .training school there Howie VanRiper, who is described by one of my sleuths as the "ex-doughnut king of the South," is living in Baltimore Carl Hecker, father of Peter Carl, born last October 31, is in the grocery business in Manchester GeorgeMitchell is in Sioux City, lowa JohnNassikas is reported to be at Harvard Law School.

And way up in Lebanon, the halls of jus tice often reverberate with the pleadings (or whatever it is lawyers do) of Bob Jones, the County Solicitor, and Charley Tesreau, local defender of the down-trodden and protector of old women and orphans. Charley is now a partner in the firm Cotton, Tesreau and Stebbins, Mr. Cotton being a Congressman from New Hampshire.

I have learned from an unimpeachable source that Charley Maguire is with the Byrd Expedition at the South Pole, being on sabbatical leave from his Brazilian diamond mine. Next month, Southern California.

Secretary, 4 School St., Concord, N. H. Treasurer,